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Comment by anisadora

This opponent is offered after you find a rare "card" associated with Ro and turn it in at the Brawlers Guild. Found the paper covered rock while working on reputation at Sunsong Ranch. Already exalted with every Tiller, and the faction itself - so it was an extra goody sometimes found whilst digging in the dirt. After defeating Ro you are rewarded with a vanity shirt, a bag of gold, and 50 valor points.

Comment by Sharpless

I'm "Ro-Shambo", the right hand of the king. I'll let you pass by here if you win three "Janken" matches.

You must choose either the "paper," "scissors," or "stone" before the music stops.

Comment by regma

Great. The ultimate game of paper rock scissors with a giant dismembered hand.Well at least it won't grab me and pull me out of the brawler's guild like a certain other giant hand.

Update: Added ref.

Comment by Goatie19

I just did this as BrM with 140k dps (not high). He will always use his abilities in the order of Rock, Paper, Scissors. This is not to say he will always start with Rock, but that if he casts Paper first he will then use Scissors and, lastly, Rock.

He hits hard if you get it wrong, but getting the first one wrong just means you need to survive until the next one and get it right.

As BrM I had to get every one right in order to have the DPS to beat the enrage (only had about 2 seconds left).

On my attempts, he always led with rock or scissors so I had a 50-50 chance of getting it right if I started with paper or rock. Starting with rock gives you a better lead-off if you are doing this as DPS with less survivability as the worst it can result in is a draw and those abilities don't hit as hard as if you lose. (I only had a few attempts on this so there isn't enough data to say this for sure).

I hope this helps someone. Good luck and have fun.

Comment by Kyosai

I've faced him over 20 times now, and so far his Rock, Paper, Scissors has failed to give me the Rock, Paper, Scissors prompt 26 times, rendering him nearly impossible due to a combination of bugs and RNG. I've tried disabling all of my addons, resetting my interface, despawning my water elemental, standing in various locations in the arena, and freezing him, and nothing I've done guarantees that I will receive the prompt.

Does anyone know of a script I can run to manually pick Rock, Paper or Scissors? It's incredibly frustrating to be unable to complete this encounter due to such a blatant bug. Even when I do get lucky enough for the fight to work as intended, AND he chooses scissors first (I always start with Rock) there's nothing stopping the fight from bugging out the second time he casts Rock, Paper, Scissors, and a guaranteed victory becomes another heart-breaking loss.

Anyone else having this problem? Only advice I can give is don't interrupt his Rock, Paper, Scissors cast or he'll never cast it again for the rest of the fight.

Comment by matth031

Am i the only one who thinks it would've been 10 times better for them to make it the Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock version?

Comment by Uzzle

Fun Fact: Rock, Paper, Scissors is also called "Ro, Sham, Bo" in Chinese

Comment by Soul06

i think i just "cheesed" the fight, as a Frost DK, 518 ilvl, i prepot+AotD, and stunned him as soon as he spawned, followed by remorseless winter, then the normal rotation, burned every single cooldown, i read the comment from goatie, and was expecting some kind of items to click on, never saw them.

sorry for the broken english >.<

Comment by ajpacho

One of the most annoying fights for me, as a warlock. As mentioned in a previous post, he did seem to follow the Rock, Paper, Scissors rotation. Regardless of what he starts with (there is where you have to get lucky), he will follow that rotation. The problem with this fight as a caster seems to be that if he starts doing the whole Rock, Paper, Scissors thing and you are currently casting, you action buttons will not show up on your hotbar, and you will most likely wipe.

DBM does however keep track of when the next cast of Rock, Paper, Scissors will be. So I just stopped casting everything around 2 seconds before that timer was up to make sure my actions buttons showed up.

Comment by kardanis

Quite easy fight for rangers with snare effect (did it on frost mage 513 with less troubles than I expected). Looks like this fight is a pure luck too.First of all he can be frozen and goes down pretty fast regardless of comparatively high HP. Second, all adds (if you lost the match) are quite harmless except for boulders. Those are the worse part of this encounter IMO. It seems he casts them on 2 or 3 time and it's when better to use Paper hoping for the best. In case you get them by the end of the fight just do your best to avoid the boulders and finish up the boss.Shortly, I'd try to use Rock-Paper-Paper (to prevent getting boulders unless you think you are more vulnatable to scissors adds).

Comment by Blueviper

Just one shot as a 514 DK. Went with rock and won, dropped him to about 10% while he had the debuff and finished him off a few seconds later. Actually getting the rock to fight him took many weeks of farming, most annoying part of the process.

Comment by Enthorn

If you gimp the fight by stunning him before he can enter the Rock Paper Scissors mode, you'll have two minutes to deal 12,211,836 damage to him to kill him before the enrage happens. That means you'll need at a minimum 101,765 DPS.

Comment by xia517

Very easy as a blood DK (ilvl 519), damage can be easily healed, and winning 3 rounds will give you enough damage to beat the enrage timer.

DBM will alert the choice for 2nd and 3rd rounds, you have 33% to get the 1st one right. ~"When in doubt, go with rock."

Comment by Hawkzombie

I haven't seen anything about the fight strat for this guy (IE: The abilities and what to do after you pick Rock, Paper, or Scissors), so here's my two cents:

Pray he picks rock. Or lose until you would pick paper to his rock.

For Paper and Scissors (When he picks them) they just eat me alive and even moving around does little to avoid the massive damage I'm taking. While each phase requires you to run like crazy, I found Rock to be the easiest to avoid since there isn't an AoE he drops on you like Scissors with the Mob chasing, or the ranged DMG you take with paper that stacks. You'll cut it close to his berserk timer, but if you blow your DPS CDs when you hit him the first time you'll destroy him the second before he has a chance to use any of those abilities.

Just pray he picks Rock, otherwise move like crazy and use any damage mitigation you can.

Comment by solieus

As a Balance Druid, I used Bash and Typhoon on cooldown and it messed him up enough he NEVER casted Rock, Paper or Scissors. It was a little tight to get the enrage, so make sure you prepot and put a few heals on yourself so you can stand still.

Comment by Ravenhawk717

Whatever you do, do NOT fight him in the center. If he uses his area effect and you get sucked into the rock, paper, scissor , you WILL take damage while you are waiting for the timer to go. This boss is incredibly frustrating.

Comment by Pyrokaros

Did this few seconds ago on Defias Brotherhood EU as arcane mage. I think fight is bugged atm, because I wanted to fight him first time without checking tactics (like I always try few times on every boss in Brawlers Guild), and he never used any ability on me, I didn't get this action bar etc, he was just melee-hitting me.

Comment by Kervern

Got killed 3 times because of the teleport into the middle at rock phase, killed me while i was frozen.

Comment by mouseno4

Wow just as a curiosity for what the brawlers guild is, i got an invitation and then this ''card'' whilst doing my daily farming for work orders.

Have to say, after being so easily beaten to death - i doubt i will be doing this again any time soon.

Comment by Cymre

The fact that Ro-Shambo follows the Rock, Paper, Scissors order makes it a lot easier to anticipate his next move. However there's no way to know this from the first time you go in as there's a one in three chance he will start with rock.

On my second last attempt, he cast Scissors last (which I lost and died) but when I challenged him again, I knew he would cast Rock first (which he did). I countered with Paper and won as well as winning the next two throws.

Essentially, I had a post-it note with the following:

Rock - PaperPaper - ScissorsScissors - Rock

so if he cast paper I knew to counter with scissors, etc.

As I said he follows the Rock, Paper, Scissors order so when I defeated him, he happened to start with Rock followed by Paper and Scissors so I countered with Paper, Scissors and Rock as listed above.

Once you understand this you can defeat him pretty easily. Note that if you win the throw he gets stunned for a few seconds giving you a nice DPS increase. The adds are pretty easy to avoid but if you lose the throw you'll be taking a lot more damage.

As a shadow priest, I was able to fear and use spectral guise when needed, popping a potion at the start and using Mindbender. Here's the video.

Comment by Ashira

This little guy is accessed by the right to purchase his challenge card from the card trader for your particular faction in the Brawler's Guild. You get access by turning in the quest that is given by the item Paper-Covered Rock which can be obtained from planting and then looting ripe crops on your farm in Halfhill.

It is worth noting that you cannot get this item from planting and looting special crops. Only vegetables and I believe portals from the portal guy will yield this item. (Please correct me if I am wrong). That means that you can't get the Paper-Covered rock by planting Enigma seeds, Razorleaf seeds, etc.

Thank you!

Comment by Silvansaria

Not sure about the whole rock, paper, scissors thing - I just spammed each one until it was over and either won, tied, or lost and the fight continued.